Introducing Started From the Bottom: How Charlamagne Turned Failure Into Success
Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi
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You Know What I Mean?
"There's been plenty of times in my life where I just wanted to be down," he says. "That people pleasing stays with you." He was fired from his job as a supervisor at Industrial Acoustics Company for being too hard on the workers and not giving them enough respect. The first time he ever got arrested, it made him realize what his dad had always told him: that if he didn't change his lifestyle, he would end up dead or broke.
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